Sometimes all you need is an editor

System Administrator are a busy lot and some of them literally run around all day fighting fires on computers no longer connected to anything. Others use remote access to tend to a large number of servers. Or both.

Thanks to scripting, most repetitive tasks are taken care of. But sometimes you need to double check a script at some location or modify something you have, to fit the task at hand. Since you are on the road, literally or virtually, you don’t have PrimalScript with you. Or you just are not supposed to install anything on that particular computer. That is when you usually revert to notepad. Not anymore.